Excited neutrino search potential of the FCC-based electron-hadron colliders

The production potential of the excited neutrinos at the FCC-based electron-hadron colliders, namely the ERL60$\otimes$FCC with $\sqrt{s}=3.46$ TeV, the ILC$\otimes$FCC with $\sqrt{s}=10$ TeV, and the PWFA-LC$\otimes$FCC with $\sqrt{s}=31.6$ TeV, has been analyzed. The branching ratios of the excited neutrinos have been calculated for the different decay channels and shown that the dominant channel is $\nu^{\star}\rightarrow eW^{+}$. We have calculated the production cross sections with the process of $ep\rightarrow\nu^{\star}q\rightarrow eW^{+}q$ and the decay widths of the excited neutrinos with the process of $\nu^{\star}\rightarrow eW^{+}$. The signals and corresponding backgrounds are studied in detail to obtain accessible mass limits. It is shown that the discovery limits obtained on the mass of the excited neutrino are $2452$ GeV for $L_{int}=100$ $fb^{-1}$, $5635$ GeV for $L_{int}=10$ $fb^{-1}$ ($6460$ GeV for $L_{int}=100$ $fb^{-1}$), and $10200$ GeV for $L_{int}=1$ $fb^{-1}$ ($13960$ GeV for $L_{int}=10$ $fb^{-1}$), for the center-of-mass energies of $3.46$, $10$, and $31.6$ TeV, respectively.Comment: 16 pages, 9 figures, 5 table

Excited muon searches at the FCC based muon-hadron colliders

We study the excited muon production at the FCC based muon-hadron colliders. We give the excited muon decay widths and production cross section. We deal with the $\mu p\rightarrow\mu^{\star}q\rightarrow\mu\gamma q$ process and we plot the transverse momentum, rapidity and invariant mass distributions of final state particles to get the discovery cuts. By using discovery cuts, we get the mass limits for excited muons. It is shown that the discovery limits on the mass of $\mu^{\star}$ are 2.2 TeV, 5.9 TeV and 7.5 TeV for $\mu63$-FCC, $\mu750$-FCC and $\mu1500$-FCC, respectively.Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables, version of published in Adv. High Energy Physic

Single production of composite electrons at the future SPPC-based lepton-hadron colliders

We consider the production of excited electrons with spin-1/2 at the future SPPC-based electron-proton colliders with center-of-mass energies of $8.4$, $11.6$, $26.6$ and $36.8$ TeV. These exotic particles are predicted in the composite models. We calculate the production cross-sections and concentrate on the photon decay channel of the excited electrons with the process of $ep\rightarrow e^{\star}X\rightarrow e\gamma X$ . The pseudorapidity and transverse momentum distributions of the electrons and photons in the final-state have been plotted in order to determine the kinematical cuts best suited for discovery of the excited electrons. By applying these cuts we compute $2\sigma$, $3\sigma$ and $5\sigma$ contour plots of the statistical significance of the expected signal in the parameter space ($L$, $m^{\star}$), where $L$ denotes the integrated luminosity of the collider and $m^{\star}$ is the mass of the composite electrons.Comment: 21 pages, 9 figures, 6 table

The Lie Brackets on Time Scales

The Lie derivative, which has a wide range of application in physics and geometry, is trying to be examined on time scales. Firstly, nabla Lie bracket is defined on two-dimensional time scales. Secondly, the nabla Lie multiplication and some properties are given on the time scales. Lastly, for analyzing the differences between the real Lie multiplication and the nabla Lie multiplication, a numerical example is given

The archipelago of press restriction in Turkey

Turkey’s independent media died a slow and painful death, a result of years of co-option, censorship and repression. But critical journalism faded with a whimper and not a bang even before Erdogan and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power

Right for the Right Reason: Training Agnostic Networks

We consider the problem of a neural network being requested to classify images (or other inputs) without making implicit use of a "protected concept", that is a concept that should not play any role in the decision of the network. Typically these concepts include information such as gender or race, or other contextual information such as image backgrounds that might be implicitly reflected in unknown correlations with other variables, making it insufficient to simply remove them from the input features. In other words, making accurate predictions is not good enough if those predictions rely on information that should not be used: predictive performance is not the only important metric for learning systems. We apply a method developed in the context of domain adaptation to address this problem of "being right for the right reason", where we request a classifier to make a decision in a way that is entirely 'agnostic' to a given protected concept (e.g. gender, race, background etc.), even if this could be implicitly reflected in other attributes via unknown correlations. After defining the concept of an 'agnostic model', we demonstrate how the Domain-Adversarial Neural Network can remove unwanted information from a model using a gradient reversal layer.Comment: Author's original versio

Subsurface and through-wall SAR imaging techniques for ground penetrating radar

This paper presents some useful signal processing and synthetic aperture radar imaging techniques for ultra-wide band (UWB) ground penetrating radar. Novel UWB antenna structures are experimentally designed in this work. Raw and processed data collected in the course of experimental studies of subsurface sensing and through-wall imaging scenarios are demonstrated in B-scan and C-scan target images.В статье представлены методы обработки сигнала и получения изображений при помощи радиолокационного синтезирования апертуры (РСА) для сверхширокополосного (СШП) георадара. Предложены новые СШП-антенные структуры. Результаты экспериментального исследования методов подповерхностного зондирования объектов, находящихся под землей и за стеной, представлены в виде изображений, полученных В- и С-сканированием.У статті представлено методи обробки сигналу та отримання зображень за допомогою радіолокаційного синтезування апертури (РСА) для надширокосмугового (НШС) георадара. Запропоновано нові НШС-антенні структури. Результати експериментального дослідження методів підповерхневого зондування об'єктів, що знаходяться під землею і за стіною, представлені у вигляді зображень, отриманих В- та С-скануванням